People Services

People Services: The Leaders and Structure Your Next Stage of Growth Needs

Think & Grow's People Services align your leadership team, find the executives your next stage requires, and design the organization to support them. Strategy only scales as far as the team executing it.

The instinct is to hire fast to fix a growth problem. Our experience is often the opposite: hiring into an unclear structure, or around a misaligned leadership team, compounds the problem. We start with what the business actually needs, then build to it. Every engagement is delivered by former CPOs, CROs, CTOs and talent leaders who have built and scaled companies themselves - not career recruiters or consultants.

Who This Is For

• Your board or investors have flagged a leadership capability gap, or want leadership benchmarked before the next round
• You are entering a new market and need a country leader or regional team in place
• Your leadership team is pulling in different directions on vision, roles or priorities
• You are scaling headcount fast and need structure, role clarity and a hiring roadmap before you hire
• You need C-suite or VP-level hires from people who understand what the role demands, not just the CV

What the Engagement Covers

People Services is modular. Depending on your stage, the engagement is built from a menu of components:

• Leadership Alignment Workshop - A 3-hour facilitated session that surfaces misalignments, clarifies roles and responsibilities and unifies strategic vision
• Capability review - Leadership and functional capability assessed against your strategic goals, with competency maps, market comparisons and a growth roadmap
• Compensation and benefits analysis - Salary, equity and benefits benchmarked against your market and stage
• Executive search - Global C-suite and VP-level search led by former operators
• Specialist search and embedded hiring sprints - Commercial, technical and operational hiring during critical scale phases
• Organization design - Future-state structures, governance and operating rhythms aligned to your go-to-market (GTM) plan, with 3, 6 and 12-month hiring roadmaps and role scorecards
• Full team build - End-to-end construction of a function or region, from role definition through search, hiring and onboarding
• Fractional coaching and advisory - CEO, CRO or functional coaching tied to commercial outcomes

Results

• eCommerce platform: Scaling was blocked by leadership gaps. We hired a CPTO and VP Product and supported the organization design that took the platform to a $1bn valuation.
• HealthTech company: A product-led business with no sales engine. We ran a sales capability review and made three C-suite hires (CFO, CPO and CRO) through its Series A to C scale phase.
• Retail SaaS company: No organizational structure for global expansion. A global restructure plus CMO, CPO and VP Customer Success hires delivered a 150% revenue lift in 10 months.
• Global media platform: A regional ad sales team underperforming for five quarters. A commercial diagnostic and a leadership hire took it from 86% to 120% of target in three months.

Why Think & Grow

Since 2015, Think & Grow has helped 750+ companies and placed 1,000+ executives in fast-growth technology businesses. With 150+ staff and advisors across Sydney, Melbourne, London and Singapore, plus presence in the US, Dubai and New Zealand, we hire in-market for the markets you are entering. Our People work connects to our Growth and AI practices, so talent decisions follow your commercial strategy rather than running alongside it.

How This Supports AWS-Powered Growth

The leaders and teams we place - CTOs, CPTOs, engineering and product leaders, and in-market commercial teams - are the people who scale cloud-hosted products and take them into new markets. New regional teams often bring deployment into additional AWS Regions, such as Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Europe (London) and US East (N. Virginia), to meet data residency and customer requirements.

Scope and Format

• Track record: 1,000+ executives placed; 750+ companies helped since 2015
• Delivery: Operator-led, remote and in-market, available globally
• Deliverables: Vary by module, from alignment findings and capability roadmaps to placed hires, organization designs and hiring roadmaps
• Pricing: Leadership Alignment Workshop available at a fixed price; all other modules are custom-scoped - request a private offer
• Billing: Purchasable through AWS Marketplace on your existing AWS invoice

New to Think & Grow? Many clients start with the Leadership Alignment Workshop or the Growth Diagnostic Workshop. To scope an engagement, email humans@thinkandgrowinc.com .